Comments for Can, Monster Movie

Pre-punk, pre-everything, this is one of the most intense listening experiences you are likely to encounter.

Yoo Doo Right is the best song for listening when you are under mj. It is my lovlest album.

Wasn't too impressed with this album, although 'Father cannot Yell' is a knockout track! I found it a bit too Pink Floyd: 'Outside my Door' is very much 'Interstellar Overdrive' from '67. 'Yoo Doo Right' is a bit repetitive, about 10m too long! (imo) I traded this for 'Peel Sessions'. No Regrets!!

This is the first Can album that I bought and it continues to amaze me. This album is way ahead of it's time. It is hard to believe it was recorded 1968. Yoo Doo Right shows some influence from Stockhausen.

I agree that this is not "just an album", but at the same time I would not put it on the top of everything. "Outside my Door" is rather standard hard rock cut, "Mary..." is a bit boring. "Father..." sports quite unusual attitude to the sound and the song sounds quite fresh even nowdays; and, finally, "Yoo Doo Right" is probably one of the best Can songs.

it's true that 'yoo doo right' is a stoner masterpiece, and possibly one of the best rock & roll grooves ever made, the length is fine, if you're too impatient for a chord change then you aren't really listening...

The only problem with the length of Yoo Doo Right is how short it is. If I could go back in time and be at any concert it would be the first performance of this song, six hours of it, in a castle, with freak out, power cut, drum solos and all. Alas, I was only two at the time.

One monster of an album. The sound is gothic, symphonic, organic, progressive, agressive, and tribal simultaneously. A real unheard masterpiece, along with K. Crimson & Soft Machine`s debuts. Can`s later material got less overtly rock oriented but the Velvets feedback orgy of track 1, the Pink Floyd-on speed-at a dance hall track 3, and the side-long African styled mastery of "Yoo Doo Right" take a backseat to nothing. The best 80% of the material is on the "Cannibalism 1" compilation actually - track 2 (not on there) is a bit abraisive and not as stunning.

Nice debut, but it's a shame Malcolm Mooney is all over the place. He totally wrecks the middle of Mary Mary so contrary and shrieks like a dying pig on Outside my door. But he's great on Father cannot yell and Yoo doo right. Classic stuff.